On My Own.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. On My Own. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1958).
8vo.; 16 pages of photographs; blue cloth, stamped in gilt; fresh and bright; photographic dust-jacket with occasional scuffmarks, edges lightly frayed.
First edition, so stated on verso of title page.
Inscribed to her son and his wife: To Elliott & Minnewa With Love from Mother (Eleanor Roosevelt) Christmas 1958. In On My Own (dedicated to, among others, Elliott and the rest of her children) Eleanor movingly describes her eventual readjustment to independent life after FDR’s death in 1945. Unlike former First Ladies, she did not disappear from view when her husband left the White House; instead, she went on to become a world celebrity, travelling to numerous countries to do good works.
Elliott married Minnewa Bell Ross, his fourth wife, in 1951. Eleanor seemed to have had a better relationship with Minnewa than with Elliott’s previous wives; in 1953 Minnewa accompanied Eleanor on a diplomatic trip to Japan. Eleanor wrote to Anna that Minnewa was a great travelling companion: “Minnewa has been a good soldier, gone to nearly every meeting, been nice to everyone & very helpful...” (Lash, p. 395). In 1957, the two made another trip together, this time with Elliott and some friends along: they went to Morocco to visit Sultan Mohammed V.
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